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VOL. 56. No. 83
Cabinet to Consider
NSA Conference
All -University President Earl Seely will ask All-Univer
sity Cabinet tonight if it wog* like to extend an invitation to
hold the National Student. Association Spring Regional Con-.
ferenee at the University.
The only convenient date for the University would be
April 27, 28, and 29, according to Seely.
Seely said he also hopes to have
selected someone .to be NSA Co
ordinator to present to Cabinet.
If the .regional conference is
held at the University, Seely said
F that the University NSA Commit
tee will have to send letters to
the various schools in the region
listing the fraternities, sororities,
motels, and hotels which could be
used for housing for the visitors.
Most schools have a system for
providing funds for food and hous
ing for their delegates.
The NSA program to be carried
out is organized by the Regional
Chairman, James Pomroy.
Seely will hold an informa
live meeting for students inter
ested in NSA at 7:15 p.m. Sun
day in 203 Hetsel Union Build—
ing. He said that several stu
dents have signed up as being
interested in NSA and should
attend the meeting. Other stu
dents interested May also at- .
tend. .
• Students attending the meeting
will have the NSA organization
explained to them as well as the
plans for NSA on campus.
Under the present plan for
NSA at the University an NSA
Coordinator will be the central
figure and head the NSA Commit
tee which will be composed of four
departments:•This committee will
meet frequently and be the center
of NSA on campus.
The four departments, accord
ing to the plan, will be Campus
Affairs, Special Arrangements.
Regional and National Affairs.
and International Affairs.
These four departments will be
directly responsible to the coordi
nator.
In addition to this there will be
a Secretariat which will receive
all incoming and outgoing mail.
The Secretariat will be in charge
of distributing information com
ing in from regional, national, and
international NSA to the proper
(department. It will also-handle the
distribution of any questions or
Icorrespondence from campus ac
tivities.
If a particular campus activity
desires information which it
may obtain through= NSA it
should go to the Secretariat,
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New Suite
Being Built
In Old Main
Painting is now being completed
in three classroom buildings and
the new administration suite be
ing constructed in the second floor
lounge of Old Main is awaiting
•
the drying of the plaster.
Finishing touches are now being
made by Physical Plant workers
in three buildings—Sparks, Min
eral Industries, and Main Engi
neering, according to Charles A.
Lamm, head of the division' of
building maintenance and opera
tion.
Almost all of the classrooms in
Sparks building have been paint
ed, as well as laboratories in Min
eral Science building.
Workers have finished painting
room 1, in the basement of Main
Engineering building. The large
room opposite it will also be
painted.
Besides the classrooms in
Sparks, some of the corridors have
been painted. Faculty offices were
done two years ago.
The new administration suite
being constructed in the second
floor lounge of Old Main is now
awaiting drying of the plaster be
fore work can be continued, Lamm
said.
Work will probably begin again
the week of Feb. 28 and the suite
of three rooms should be com
pleted by late March, he added.
The new suite will be the office
of Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director
of student affairs. Kenworthy's
present office will be a filing
room.
Besides Kenworthy's office, the
new suite will contain a reception
room and a filing room.
Management Group to Meet
The Society for the Advance
ment of Management will meet a
7:30 tonight at Phi Kappa Tau.-
British . Trade to Russa
Blasted - bi • Industrialist
WASHINGTON, Feb 15 (fP)—Senators investigating East-
West trade were told today Great Britain and other allies,
with U.S permission, are• selling Russia the means to build
"the most modern weapons" of war.
Ralph R. Baldenhofer, a Mid-western industrialist and
sometime government consultant, contended it would be "far
better" to furnish the Soviets guided missiles or planes
Strategic production tools can
be used over and over again to
make deadly implements of war,
he said, while a missile "can come
back at us only once."
Baldenhofer testified before the
Senate Investigations subcommit
tee at the start of hearings called
to check into the sale of potential
War materials to the Soviet bloc.
Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark),
the subcommittee chairman, char
ged at the outset that Eisenhower
administration officials have put
"obstructions" in the path' of the
inquiry.
McClellan said evidence at hand
indicates a "very disturbing" use
of free world shipments to Russia
that are "indispensable in . con
structing or maintaining a war
machine.
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partment had failed to make avail
able one of its machine tool ex
perts for testimony and said the
subcommittee wodld resort to a
subpoena if necessary. Later, how
ever, he said the department had
agreed to "cooperate" and that
the expert, John Williams, would
be available for testimony tomor
row.
, Barldenhofer testified both he
and Williams had opposed allow
ing the shipment of many present
ly cleared items to Russia.
Baldenhofer is executive vice
president of a Springfield, Ohio,
machine company. He said he is
now a consultant to the Navy
and• served in _the Commerce De
partment last year as a machine
tools specialist.
Cabinet to Discuss
Opinion Board
All-University Cabinet will hear the detkils of a proposed Studeent Opinion Com
mittee to provide a system of communication between Cabinet and the student body at its
first meeting of the semester tonight.
•According to BrUce Lieske, president of the Association of Independent Men and spon
sor of the idea, the committee will act as a sounding board of student opinion by con-
AIM Board
Asks Probation
For Freshmen
Association of Independent
Men's Judicial Board of Review
recommended both office and
judicial probation Tuesday for a
freshman in_ arts and letters who
became involved in a series of
incidents after takin beer into his
room in West Hall area Feb. 1.
The student also permitted
three of his friends who are not
students to remain in the resi
dence 'hall for two nights with
out the approval of the depart
ment of housing, and became in
volved in a water fight later in
the evening.
Signs of the water fight were.
discovered by the residence hall
maid the next morning. The stu
dent and his friends had placed
the empty beer cans on the water
pipe in his room.
He had purchased the beer at
a borough tavern, although he is
a minor.
The board also agreed to send
a letter of reprimand to the tav
ern involved.
The student said he and his
friends drank most of the beer
before returning to the residence
hall but carried "a few cans" to
his room.
Three Injured
In Auto Crash
A University associate, a re
search assistant, and a student
were involved in' the same acci
dent yesterday morning. The re
search associate was slightly in
jured.
Jack Zussman, research asso
ciate in ceramic technology, re
ceived slight brush burns when
he fell from the car operated by
Stanley Rothschild, research as
sistant in mineral preparation.
The accident occured at the
intersection of Burrowes street
and Foster avenue, police said.
Driver of the other car was
Eugene Griffin, senior in the di
vision of intermediate registra
tion from Old Greenwich, Corm.
Rothschild, will be charged
with failing to yield the right-of
way, police said.
Damage to Rothschild's car
was estimated at $5OO, and the
Griffin car at $lOO.
A Borough street marker was
also damaged in the accident.
World Ag Group,
New Organization,
To Meet Tonight
The World Agricultural Service
Society, a newly organized group,
will meet at 7:30 tonight in 211
Hetzel Union.
The program is entitled "Meet
the Philippines," and will be led
by Jose Alonzo, Isaac Alvarez, and
Luis Bago, school teachers in
rural areas of the Philippines, who
are at the University for a year
of special study in agricultural
education. Colored slides will be
shown.
Glen Elder, society president,
will preside at the meeting, which
will be open to the public.
Membership in the group is not
limited to, students in agriculture,
according to Frank Anthony, in
structor in agricultural education
and adviser to the group.
ducting polls and distributing
questionnaires to the student
body.
• In justifying such a committee
Lieske said that at present the
students do not haye an adequate
channel • of communication be
tween themselves and the All-
University- Cabinet.
He added that since the stu
dents do not. or cannot use • the
existing channels of communica
tion between themselves and
Cabinet and since student govern
ment can never• be effective un-
AGENDA
Committee Reports:
1. Compensation Committee—
Phil Beard
2. Leadership Training corn-
_ .
mittee—Jim Musser
3. Registration Committee—
Bob McMillan
4. Executive Committee—
Doug Moorhead
Lynn Myers
Jim Musser
Joe Hayes
New Business:
I. Annual Report Your Stu-
dent Go'vernment*-
2. Constitutional Amendment
3. Scholarship and Award Re
port
less it represents a great pro
portion of the student body, the
best way in which these things
can be accomplished is the pro
posed Student Opinion Commit
tee.
The annual report of the Com
pensation Committee also be pre
sented by the committee chair
man, Phil Beard.
The committee will present its
recommendations on which posi
tions in student government
should receive compensations and
also the size of the compensa
tions. -
The Chemistry and Physics
Student Council last night passed
a motion to instruct Bill Childs,
president, to vote negatively on
the compensation scale for All-
University and class officers that
will be presented to cabinet.
George Yingling, president of
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Final Milholland Rites
To Be Held Tomo , lrow
Funeral services for Judge James Milholland, president
of the Board of -Trustees of the -University since 1946, who
died Tuesday night will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow from the
Sampson Funeral Home, Pittsburgh.
President Milton S. Eisenhower and his staff will repre-
sent the University at the serv
ices.
Seely to Attend
Earl Seely, All-University pres
ident, and Phillip Beard, All-Uni
versity secretary-treasurer, will
also attend the funeral.
The 68-year-old judge was ad
mitted to the hospital on Feb. 5
after a heart attack at his Pitts
burgh home where. he was re
covering from an appendectomy
he underwent after Christmas.
Doctors said Judge Milholland
suffered three heart attacks Mon
day and three Tuesday.
A successor to Judge Milholland
will probably be chosen at the
next Board of Trustees meeting
June 7 and 8. According to a
board regulation, .a vacancy in
any office is filled by ballot of
the members at any full meeting
of. the board.
- The two flags in front of Old
Prexy. to Get
Korean Award
Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, presi
dent of the University,. will re
ceive South Korea's highest civil
ian award Friday in Washington
for his organization and leadership
of the American-Korean Founda
tion.
The Associated Press reported
last night that Korean ambassador
Yau Chan Yang will - present the
Republic of Korea .Medal on be
half of President Syngmen Rhee
in a ceremony at .the Korean Em
bassy.
Dr. Eisenhower became the first
chairman of the organization in
1953. The foundation functioned
as a relief agendy during the Ko-
Irean conflict and is now materially
aiding Koreans:
Dr. Eisenhower will leave for
Washington immediately after the
funeral of James Tvfilholland, 'for
mer president of the Board of
Trustees at the University, who
will be buried at 2:30 Friday aftet
noon in Pittsburgh.
Yang said Milton Eisenhower' is
regarded by the Korean people
"as their great, good friend.
Through his leadership were given
kindness and material assistance
to the sufferers from Communistic
aggression."
Cloudy, Cool Weather
Forecast for Today
The forecast for today's weather
is partly cloudy, and cool, accord
ing to the students in the depart
ment of meteorology. Tonight will
be clear and colder with a low of
25 degrees. The high today will
be 34.
The high for yesterday was 39
with a low of 38.
Precipitation yesterday amount
ed to .09 per cent of an inch.
Industrial Education Society
The Industrial ' Education So
ciety will meet at 8 tonight at
Lambda Chi Alpha. .Movies will
be shown. '
Editorial an page four
Main were lowered to half-mast
yesterday in memory of Judge
Milholland.
He has served on the Board of
Trustees since 1930 and, less than
a nionth ago,_ was elected to .his
11th term as president of the
board. At that time he was named
a Distinguished Alumnus of the
University by the members of the
board. Five graduates are con
ferred this honor every year.
Judge Milholland was born on
Oct. 25, 1887, in Pittsburgh where
he has been a life-long resident.
Earned Degree Here
He entered the University in
1907 as a pre-legal student and in
1911 qualified for his bachelor
of arts degree. Entering the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh, he earned
his bachelor of laws degree in
1914.
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